He understands some people might scoff at the idea of using a breakfast joint to gauge the intensity of a hurricane, but he says that keeping an eye on the restaurants after the storm hits can tell you a lot about how a community is recovering. We're not going to ride the storm out in a Waffle House.ĬORNISH: That's Waffle House spokesman Pat Warner. PAT WARNER: We have eight shut down now, and we'll shut more down as the storm comes on shore. Now, as Florence bears down on the Carolinas, some local Waffle Houses are already at red. SHAPIRO: And a completely open, full-menu Waffle House is green.
If they're open but have a limited menu, that's yellow. SHAPIRO: Waffle House restaurants are open 24/7, so the threshold for them to close is extremely high, making them good measurements of a storm's severity.įUGATE: If a Waffle House is closed because a disaster is bad, we call it red.
If the Waffle House is open, everything's good.ĬORNISH: That is former FEMA Administrator Craig Fugate, the creator of the Waffle House Index, on NPR's Wait Wait. PETER SAGAL: Could you tell us what the Waffle House Index is?ĬRAIG FUGATE: Sure. Three pieces of diced tomatoes with like 5 pieces of the sautéed onions.The federal government uses many different methods to determine how severe a storm might be, some like Doppler radar from the National Weather Service are incredibly sophisticated. Stunned, i sat there in silence for a moment, only having my phone to take a pic as a reflex. Mainly cuz i experienced a temporary mix of wernickes’ and broca’s aphasia. I ordered a hashbrown with diced grilled tomatoes and sautéed grilled onions, but wut i got wuz… Well there was just no words to describe it. But my hashbrown i bet will be awesome! Or so i thought then. Maybe they were just so inspired by it that they named the place that way, who knows. After all, i had a great time in TX, so i figured, maybe waffles isn’t their thing. Tasted more like 3 pancakes jammed in one and then molded in the shape of a waffle! But i wuz still optimistic. I wuz thinking, is this a joke? Is this really wut they meant by chocolate chip waffle? It didn’t even taste like a waffle. The over zealous server, brought me wut looks like a compressed waffle, that they sprinkled chocolate chips after realizing my order. Shocked and mortified, all i could think of at the time was to grab my phone and take a picture a I’m sure if i tell people about it, they’ll call me a liar. Great! My expectation went even higher! But as my order of chocolate chip waffle landed in front of me, i was slapped back into reality. I wuz beaming with anticipation, why? Cuz if it’s this busy and this packed, it must be good right?! So we all ordered and waited quite awhile before we all got our food. It was hustling and bustling and it felt great. It wuz my first time being in a diner where i can see the food cooked right before my eyes! And sitting at the bar was the best place to observe it. There were no seats so we had to wait, but we chose to sit at the bar so we got seated quick. Me and a few coworkers went to another coworker’s wedding held in Texas and on our last day of unexpected adventures, we decided to eat somewhere close to the hotel and DFW. Either that or it wuz just how they do things in Texas. I came to wafflehouse thinking it was going to be the same as the wafflehouse here in Redondo Beach. Seriously one of my worst disappointments after a great expectation.
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